About the conference

More than 800 million people in the world are undernourished, despite the growing scientific knowledge and decades of international aid. Natural resource conflicts, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly push more people into poverty and hunger. At the same time, obesity is an increasing health problem in almost all countries in the world. While the majority of existing food systems are drivers of biodiversity loss, greenhouse gas emissions and water insecurity, they also provide livelihoods to a majority of people.

Just and resilient food systems can contribute to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At this year’s Agri4D conference, we ask the participants to specifically address the core question: ‘How can we shape sustainable and just food systems resilient to the new realities of changing climates, ongoing transformations in food production, supply and demand, health threats and pandemics?

The Agri4D platform

The objective of the conference is to present and integrate knowledge about potential solutions and outcomes, while identifying how those solutions might be incentivised and how, together, they can enable the social and economic transformations necessary to advance and achieve the goal of food and nutrition security for all.

With the ongoing pandemic, we will hold the conference online enabling a wide international participation creating a great potential for open and dynamic conversations. We divide the three days conference into 6 topics. The conference is a learning opportunity for all involved to raise awareness based on scientific knowledge.

Organising committee

The Agri4D organising committee is represented by a number of people from both SIANI, SLU Global and Akademikonferens. 

• Alin Kadfak, project leader
• Maja Malmberg, project leader
• Katarina Börling, research officer
• Agnes Bondesson, communication/ web editor
• Marta Anguera, communication/ social media